Lab Activities/ Updates

Spring 2025

We celebrated Simmy's graduation and Megan joined us for our get together.
We welcommed Mallika to the lab.
We are also revving up for a busy summer with lots of summer students.

Winter 2024/2025

Gabby officially graduated!
We welcomed Heather as our lab manager and enjoyed the holiday season.
Katie was able to present her poster at the annual MBRISC meeting

Fall 2024

Gabby Entrup is officially Dr. Gabby Entrup after completing her thesis defense in 2024!
Katie Ellis had a successful poster presentation winning a poster award at the annual CDI meeting.

Summer 2024

We have an exciting year so far with Gabby Huizinga having her first paper accepted in Journal of Immunology after a wonderful GRC meeting.
Nicole Baker joined our team helping us with our new studies.
We welcomed summer students Janie and Lucy along with our new Post-doc Katie Ellis to join our lab!

Fall 2023

Finally coordinated a fall lab retreat. Excited for the planning we accomplished for the year!

Summer 2023

Summer student Mikayla Borador had a great presentation for the M-SURF program.

Spring 2023

We enjoyed a wonderful graduation celebration for all of our undergraduate students graduating this year - Aayush Unadkat, Katie Kim, Mariam Tobia, Nadir Al-Saidi (who completed his honors thesis), and Mckenzie Ely who will be joining the Singer Lab.
Congratulations to Gabby Huizinga now Gabby Entrup :) Gabby also was awarded the Miller award from Immunology and enjoyed a featured presentation at the CDI meeting.

Winter 2022

Lots to celebrate this winter starting with Dr. Mohan expanding his family with a new little one.
We expanded our Singer Lab adding Megan Sayfie as our coordinator and welcoming Dr. Varghese back to support this exciting project.
We also celebrated Chitra's new position in the Phenotyping core.

Summer 2022

Lots to celebrate this summer at our retreat and summer party. Mohammed Islam and Dr. Emily Bowers are moving on to new adventures. The Singer Lab is also excited to start a new clinical R01. Thanks NIH/NIDDK!

April 2022

The new year has been exciting but has brought us lots of change with Dr. Mita Varghese finishing her post-doctoral studies in our lab and Dr. Ramkumar joining our group.

October/November 2021

Love the lab energy about Halloween! Thanks Gabby for the decorations.
October also allowed us to celebrate the support from Edie Briskin through the Valerie Castle Opipari Professorship! Thanks for all the support.

September 2021

Congrats Jeremy on finishing your last experiment in lab before heading to NYC. Thanks for being our first 4 year undergrad in the lab!

August 2021

Successful Lab Retreat with an Alumni zoom and successful escape room with 12 minutes to spare!

July 2021

Excited that Mohammed Islam's first paper was accepted and has been featured on the JAALAS cover!

May 2021

We finally were able to celebrate! We are so grateful for the successful lab move and congratulations to our graduating senior undergraduates Jeremy and Ravi! Also, congrats to Gabby Huizinga for successfully passing prelims!

March 2021

Finally our lab has moved to be part of the CDI research groups at NCRC! Although it was lots of work we were grateful to everyone for pitching in! While we have enjoyed our virtual lab meetings its nice to finally get to meet in person in lab.

September 2020

Congratulations Gabby on your first paper! We were also fortunate to have this linked to an important NYT article highlighting the importance of untangling the role of obesity in COVID-19 outcomes.
Also had a great opportunity to meet up in a socially distanced lab meeting. Thanks Simin!

July 2020

Thanks Andrew Kocab for featuring our work in your blog

May 2020

Well it certainly hasn't been a normal semester with COVID-19 but the lab has continued to be successful!
Emily Bowers will be starting an American Heart Association Post-Doctoral Fellowship!
So excited that Gabby Huizinga will be joining our lab with a co-mentorship with Dr. Beth Moore!
Congrats to Layla Hak and Taryn Hayes on graduating from University of Michigan both starting Masters programs at U of in the Fall!
Ayse Bulan has been accepted into Pediatric Endocrine fellowship and will be starting at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Finally, Dr. Singer's promotion to Associate Professor came through!

December 2019

The Singer Lab continues its fun with rotating graduate students Dawit Mengistu and Gabby Huizinga this semester!
We have also been so lucky to have had Raquel Mesquita working with us this semester. Raquel will be returning to Brazil to continue her work and hopefully continue collaborations with us!

June 2019 - Congratulations Graduates!

Congratulations Eric on graduating fellowship...we wish you the best in your future Pediatric Endocrine position
Congrats to Kaitlin as she spends her gap year at the NIH!

April 2019 - Singer Lab retreat

2019 Retreat following wonderful seminars by Eric Chang, Mita Varghese and Emily Bowers.
Thanks Johanna Fleischmann for a wonderful rotation in the lab.
Congratulations Eric on the oral presentation at PAS!

December 2018 - Celebrating 2018 successes with a Singer Lab Happy hour.

Congrats Mita on your recent Endocrinology Paper!
Congrats Abi on your acceptance to your top choice D.O. Program!
Welcome Mohammed to the lab!
Cant' wait to see what 2019 brings

June 2018 - Singer Lab image selected for cover art for the Journal of Biological Chemistry

April 2018 - Dr. Singer awarded Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Faculty Advocate Award

April 2018 - Celebrating everyone's transition.

February 2018 - The first Lab meeting of the year. Setting goals for what will be a great year for the lab!

November 2017 - The Singer Lab was well represented in the 28th Annual Pediatric Research Symposium at the University of Michigan.

Eric Chang, M.D. - Abstract Award. Oral presentation: "The effects of high-fat diet exposure during lactation on adiposity and adipose inflammation"

Cameron Griffin, B.S. - Abstract honorable mention. Poster presentation: "Androgens Potentiate Myeloid Inflammatory Responses to Diet-Induced Obesity"

Mita Varghese, Ph.D. - Poster presentation: "Role of sex hormones in lypolisis induced inflammation"

Cecilia Gállego Suárez, M.D. - Poster presentation: "The relationship between adiposity and bone density in U.S. children and adolescents"

November 2017 - Celebrating the Developmental Origins of Metabolic Syndrome Research Symposium award!

October 2017 - Congratulations to Dr. Chang on his poster award at the Developmental Origins of Metabolic Syndrome Symposium!

September 2017 - Dr. Gállego presented a poster and an oral presentation at the 10th International Meeting of Pediatric Endocrinology.

Undergraduate student presented his summer work at the Singer lab to the Michigan Health Sciences Undergraduate Research Academy Program.

Singer Lab dinner, summer 2017.

Summer 2017 - The Singer Lab met for part 2 retreat.

June 2017 - Together with the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute, Dr. Singer hosted the event and panel discussion "Strategies to Empower Women to Achieve Academic Success".

Spring 2017 - The clinical team and undergraduate students met for a part 1 retreat.

Fall 2016 - Edith Briskin supporter of our research through the Tabuman Emerging Scholar's Program visits the Singer Lab

Summer 2016 Lab get together

1st Annual Singer Lab Retreat

Celebrating Leila's 20th Birthday

Happy birthday, Brian! Brian, a member of the Lumeng lab turned 30 this November and we helped him celebrate with a cookie cake!

Our image of adipocytes from an old male mouse recently took 3rd place in the Taubman Institute Image Contest.

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